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JASAL

Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature

VOLUME 1 2002

Editorial Advisory Committee

W. D. Ashcroft, University of New South Wales, Sydney Delys Bird, University of Western Australia, Perth Nicholas Birns, The New School for Social Research, New York Pat Buckridge, Griffith University, Brisbane Robert Dixon, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba Carole Ferrier, University of Queensland, Brisbane Terry Goldie, York University, Toronto Kerryn Goldsworthy, University of Adelaide Margaret Harris, University of Sydney Dennis Haskell, University of Western Australia, Perth John C. Hawley, Santa Clara University, California Paul Kane, Vassar College, New York Peter Kirkpatrick, University of Western Sydney Susan Lever, ADFA/University of New South Wales, Canberra Susan K. Martin. LaTrobe University, Melbourne Phillip Mead, University of Tasmania, Hobart Peter Pierce, James Cook University, Cairns Xavier Pons, University of Toulouse – Le Mirail Cassandra Pybus, University of Tasmania Kay Schaffer, University of South Australia, Adelaide Ian Syson, Victoria University, St Albans Terry Threadgold, University of Cardiff Chris Wallace-Crabbe, University of Melbourne Elizabeth Webby, University of Sydney 2 JASAL 1 2002

JASAL is a peer-reviewed journal which is published annually by the Association for the Study of Australian Literature. Three copies of unsolicited manuscripts should be submitted to the editors, no longer than 6000 words (excluding Works Cited and Endnotes), documented using MLA style, double-spaced and in hard copy. A style guide is available from the editors or at . Manuscripts are refereed anonymously and should be identified using a separate covering letter. Allow 3 months for consideration. On acceptance the editors will request a disk copy (Word rtf format).

JASAL welcomes any scholarly material with an interest in Australian literature or which might be of interest to people working in this field. We encourage comparative studies with other literatures and forms of representation beyond the literary. We are particularly interested in work which challenges received critical paradigms and which contributes to public debates. JASAL welcomes review articles (up to 4000 words) and responses to previously published material (up to 2000 words).

Editorial Addresses Christopher Lee Barbara Milech Humanities and International Studies Communication and Cultural Studies University of Southern Queensland Curtin University Toowoomba, Queensland 4350 PO Box U1987 Perth, Western Australia 6845 Tel: +61 07 4631 1045 Tel: +61 08 9266 7179 Fax: +61 07 4631 1063 Fax: +61 08 9266 2594 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected]

Reviews Editors Lyn McCredden Andrew McCann Literary and Communication Studies English with Cultural Studies Deakin University (Burwood Campus) University of Melbourne 221 Burwood Hwy Melbourne, Victoria 3010 Burwood, Victoria 3125 Tel: +61 03 9244 3960 Tel: +61 03 8344 5506/7 Fax: +61 03 9481 6717 Fax: +61 03 8344 5494 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected]

Management Committee Pat Buckridge (Griffith), Paul Genoni (Curtin), Tony Hughes D’Aeth (UWA), Lyn Jacobs (Flinders), Christopher Lee (USQ), Susan Lever (ADFA/UNSW), Lyn McCredden (Deakin), Susan K. Martin (LaTrobe), Philip Mead (UTAS), Barbara Milech (Curtin), Nicole Moore (Macquarie), Bec Pannell (Flinders), Simon Ryan (ACU) and Helen Thomson (Monash). 3

CONTENTS

ARTICLES

Andrew McCann 4 Bohemia and the Dream-life of the Colonial City Tony Hughes D’Aeth 19 Australian Writing, Deep Ecology and Julia Leigh’s The Hunter Pat Buckridge 32 “Good Reading” in the Australian Women’s Weekly, 1933–1970 Elizabeth Webby 44 Killing the Narrator: National Differences in Adaptations of Robbery Under Arms Ian Henderson 51 “There Are French Novels And There Are French Novels”: Charles Reade and the “Other” Sources of Marcus Clarke’s His Natural Life Wenche Ommundsen 67 Of Dragons and Devils: Chinese-Australian Life Stories

REVIEWS

Frances Devlin Glass 81 Dirt Music, by Tim Winton Peta Stephenson 84 The Captive White Woman of Gipps Land, by Julie Carr Andrew McCann 87 Prosthetic Gods: Travel, Representation and Colonial Governance, by Robert Dixon Daniel Groenewald 90 The Gauche Intruder: Freud, Lacan and the White Australian Fantasy, by Jennifer Rutherford Rachael Weaver 94 Struggle and Storm: The Life and Death of Francis Adams, by Meg Tasker Lyn Jacobs 96 True History of the Kelly Gang, by Peter Carey Ian Henderson 101 Chain Letters: Narrating Convict Lives, edited by Lucy Frost and Hamish Maxwell-Stewart Lyn McCredden 106 Collected Poems, by John Forbes Kerryn Goldsworthy 109 A Certain Style: Beatrice Davis, A Literary Life, by Jacqueline Kent